-THE ORCHID REVIEW. 77 
NOVELTIES OF 1806. 
WE seem to become more and more dependent on the work of the hybridist 
for the introduction of novelties of sterling merit, as each year increases the 
difficulty of discovering such things in a wild state. Of the latter, the year 
1896 has nothing very striking to record, except among varieties of well- 
known garden plants. Among botanical Orchids interesting things keep 
turning up, and will probably do so for a long time to come. Among those 
credited to last year’s account may be mentioned Stanhopea impressa, 
Chondrorhyncha albicans and Mormodes badium, from the collection of 
the Hon. Walter Rothschild. Bulbophyllum Ericssoni has flowered in the 
same collection. Lanium subulatum, Macodes Sanderiana, Cyrtopodium 
micranthum, Epidendrum xipheroides, Oncidium Godseffianum, and 
Gongora Sanderiana flowered with Messrs. F. Sander & Co. Epidendrum 
Barbeyanum and Rodriguezia inconspicua appeared with M. Barbey, of 
Geneva. Restrepia sanguinea was introduced by Messrs. Charlesworth & 
Co. Others recorded are Dendrobium quadrilobum, from the collection of 
F. A. Newdigate, Esq.; D. Jennyanum, which appeared with M. Zollinger- 
Jenny, Zurich ; Coelogyne Lauterbachiana, flowered in the Berlin Botanic 
Garden ; Acanthophippium eburneum, with M. Paul Wolter, of Magdeburg ; 
Sobralia Brandtiz, with Mrs. Brandt, of Zurich; Bulbophyllum othoglossum, 
with M. Wendland; B. longiscapum flowered at Kew; Spiranthes metallica 
with Messrs. James Veitch & Sons; B. attenuatum and Epidendrum 
atrorubens with Messrs. Linden. A few of these appeared previous to last 
year, but have only now been described, while conversely a few supposed 
novelties which flowered in 1896 have not been recorded. One or two of 
the preceding may not really be new, though recorded as such. 
Numerous handsome varieties of well-known garden plants were recorded, 
but it is rather difficult to say how many are really distinct from pre-existing 
varieties, especially in such species as Odontoglossum crispum, Cattleya 
Mossiz, and Lelia purpurata, of all of which new varicties have been 
recorded, which we have not space to enumerate in detail. Cypripedium 
Fred Hardy, from the collection of F. Hardy, Esq., is one of the most 
_——4nteréSting plants of the year, and, as pointed out when it was figured at 
page 17, it is a little doubtful whether it is an albino of Cypripedium Charles- 
worthii or a natural hybrid from it and something else. An albino of Lelia 
pumila preestans also flowered in the collection of D. B. Rappart, Esq. 
Among natural hybrids the most remarkable is the one called Cattleya x 
Le Czar, introduced by Messrs. Linden, to which a First-class Certificate 
was awarded by the Royal Horticultural Society. It is clearly descended 
from C. labiata and C. granulosa. Dendrobium X Rolfee candidulum is a 
very pretty white variety from the collection of T. A. Gledstanes, Esq. 
